This is quite a key point. A perfect store would be one where an individual in one country can trade easily with someone in another country. With E-Bay this is not so. You have to use the wretched PayPal or similar schemes none of which work properly and all skim off more of the proceeeds.
Correct. The US media is tends to take a short term outlook on most incidents when what is desperatly needed is a longer term perspective. eg. its fine reporting 9/11 etc but not good at presenting the reasons why people have such hatred of the US/The West. In any case the US media is not owned by the government however they are 'influenced' by the advertising companies.
We have both the technology and the money. Like so may things its a matter of priorities. Hopefully this news will inspire NASA and the goverment to put space explorartion to the forefront where it deserves to be. This news - if it is correct - is hugely important. It will take some months for the full enormity of this news and its implications to sink in. This is great news. The future looks bright.
I wonder what would happen if China offered the US participation in the program. It probably would not happen but if China is serious about benefiting the whole of mankind (?) they should consider such an offer.
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I beg to disagree. There were parts in the review that made me laugh out loud. This was a bad and dishonest movie and the reviewer rightly skewered it to the ground. In a time when much of the media has placed there collective critical facilities in neutral its refreshing to see some willing to step up and point at the dross with an almost Swiftian combination of humour and anger. Hope to see some more reviews from this person. Preferably a more up to date film.
Sometimes I think we miss the old Soviet Union so much we'eve deceided to morph into it. A paranoid government that uses its vast state security infrastructure to monitor its citizens whilst the media toe the party line and filter out any news stories that could offend the leaders. I could say more but thay are probably monitoring my key strokes...hold on there is a knock at the door...
SuSe has always been a bit bloated but they have made huge efforts to allow the user to select what they want to install and later on to install/upgrade new packages. I have used RedHat and SuSe for several years and if anyone asks me what distro to go for I say try SuSe bacause I have so much respect for the install process.
Exactly. This is the sort of service that makes explicit the value of web services and will push foreward.net and the soap protocol. I am still thinking through the implications of this action but it is clear that this is an innovative action that hopefully will be followed up by other institutions. For example, what about FedEx releasing an API to query the progress of the delivery of your parcels.
This is another interresting idea on making systems that can self-adapt and grow/repair without intervention from engineers. This is fine but if we take the 'nature' analogy that this science is following what happens when disease or illness strikes? For example a computer virus or trojan. We will be dependent on crucial systems that, at some stage in the future, we will not understand how they work or how to repair them quickly. This maybe acceptable for cell phone networks but what would happen if this was an air traffic control system? I'm all for following the route in the Cnet article but we need to ensure that we build in processes to control and understand the changes that the system is implementing.
Products like this are good news hopefully the PC manufacturers will take the opprtunity to design some cases with the imagination that Apple apply. There should be no reson why good design is ring fenced for the benefit of the Mac. All it will take is a manufacturer with imagination to exploit the opportunities MoBo's like this offer and build some really exciting PC's or home appliances for the home market.
Read the article. I love this line for a general catch all excuse for when the Pres. wants to vape a country. On a more serious note such a reason is very dangerous as it could apply to anything.If your going to define a policy on when to use nukes then you should have the obligation to make crystal clear the situations where the nuclear option would be considered. For any programmer out there could you imagine writing a functional spec using such loose and ambigious language?
Agreed. There was some pertinent information in the article but it was so wrapped up in the writers ego trip that it was hard to locate it. The point is that if Raskin considers himself so much better at GUI design than the rest of us plebs then he should design a GUI and post some screenshots on the web so we can all bask in the reflected glory of his ego, sorry, design.
I agree with the theme of the comments from MS that HTTP is been used in ways not planned for. However, whilst I am concerned about this the thought of MS providing us with a replacement is really terrifying. Much of this is vintage FUD that our friends at MS are masters of. Hopefully, the few remaining competitors to MS will ensure that alternatives to the valid points are raised. AS
The tracking of speed breakers in the UK is already in place, On certain motorways (freeways) your vehicle and more specifically the vehicle registration number is recorded by CCTV. When you leave the motorway your vehicle is again photographed and the central database scans for your registration number. The computer can then do a simple calculation on how long it took you to travel from point A to point B. If this calculation equates to a speed > 70 MPH you'll get a court summons in the post. As you wont gave a leg to stand on defence wise you can at least plead guilty by post. Hurrah for technology.
Reading this atricle brought back memories of running NT on some Alpha servers. The Alpha was awesome hardware and its very sad that it fell victim to the Wintel meatgrinder. The technology was superior to the Intel chips, sadly DEC could never match the marketing muscle of Intel. Did Intel lean on Microsoft to drop the NT version for the Alpha? Still for those who have access to an Alpha you have my best wishes. Its great kit.
What worries me most is that this is a form of technology test before rolling out a version to the US or other western countries. Maybe I'm getting a little paranoid but consider this scenario: a western government deceides that in the war against terrorism greater control and analysis over internet traffic is required so as to 'protect' us,the prols, against the bad guys. Our patriotic duty would be to support such actions as our contribution to the war. AS
Why should the user of lasers be against the law ? You can use a flame thrower on the bad guys and then bayonet the survivors but not zap them with a high intesity beam. Bush appears quite easy about ignoring laws he does not like and in this case I'd have no problem with either altering international law to reflect new technology or simply deploying the weapons.
This sums up my thoughts. In principle OS X for Intel is a great idea. In reality it could well be a nightmare for Apple to support and in the end devaluing the Apple brand that the company has fourght so hard to preserve.
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This is quite a key point. A perfect store would be one where an individual in one country can trade easily with someone in another country. With E-Bay this is not so. You have to use the wretched PayPal or similar schemes none of which work properly and all skim off more of the proceeeds.
Correct. The US media is tends to take a short term outlook on most incidents when what is desperatly needed is a longer term perspective. eg. its fine reporting 9/11 etc but not good at presenting the reasons why people have such hatred of the US/The West.
In any case the US media is not owned by the government however they are 'influenced' by the advertising companies.
Tom's Hardware continues to be one of the best sites for this sort of information. Keep up the goodwork guys
We have both the technology and the money. Like so may things its a matter of priorities. Hopefully this news will inspire NASA and the goverment to put space explorartion to the forefront where it deserves to be.
This news - if it is correct - is hugely important. It will take some months for the full enormity of this news and its implications to sink in. This is great news. The future looks bright.
Bring on the force sword! I'm astonished they have not got around to inventing this one yet.
Once they get those we'll all be joining up.
The technology is great but its open to abuse and I for one would like more emphasis on privacy and security.
I wonder what would happen if China offered the US participation in the program. It probably would not happen but if China is serious about benefiting the whole of mankind (?) they should consider such an offer.
I beg to disagree. There were parts in the review that made me laugh out loud. This was a bad and dishonest movie and the reviewer rightly skewered it to the ground.
In a time when much of the media has placed there collective critical facilities in neutral its refreshing to see some willing to step up and point at the dross with an almost Swiftian combination of humour and anger.
Hope to see some more reviews from this person. Preferably a more up to date film.
Sometimes I think we miss the old Soviet Union so much we'eve deceided to morph into it. A paranoid government that uses its vast state security infrastructure to monitor its citizens whilst the media toe the party line and filter out any news stories that could offend the leaders.
I could say more but thay are probably monitoring my key strokes...hold on there is a knock at the door...
SuSe has always been a bit bloated but they have made huge efforts to allow the user to select what they want to install and later on to install/upgrade new packages. I have used RedHat and SuSe for several years and if anyone asks me what distro to go for I say try SuSe bacause I have so much respect for the install process.
I have not the faintest idea what your talking about old chap. What language do they speak in your country?
Nice quality graphics.
Exactly. This is the sort of service that makes explicit the value of web services and will push foreward .net and the soap protocol.
I am still thinking through the implications of this action but it is clear that this is an innovative action that hopefully will be followed up by other institutions. For example, what about FedEx releasing an API to query the progress of the delivery of your parcels.
This is another interresting idea on making systems that can self-adapt and grow/repair without intervention from engineers.
This is fine but if we take the 'nature' analogy that this science is following what happens when disease or illness strikes? For example a computer virus or trojan.
We will be dependent on crucial systems that, at some stage in the future, we will not understand how they work or how to repair them quickly.
This maybe acceptable for cell phone networks but what would happen if this was an air traffic control system?
I'm all for following the route in the Cnet article but we need to ensure that we build in processes to control and understand the changes that the system is implementing.
Slightly off topic I admit but does anyone know why April 1st is the day for this sort of thing?
Products like this are good news hopefully the PC manufacturers will take the opprtunity to design some cases with the imagination that Apple apply.
There should be no reson why good design is ring fenced for the benefit of the Mac.
All it will take is a manufacturer with imagination to exploit the opportunities MoBo's like this offer and build some really exciting PC's or home appliances for the home market.
Read the article. I love this line for a general catch all excuse for when the Pres. wants to vape a country.
On a more serious note such a reason is very dangerous as it could apply to anything.If your going to define a policy on when to use nukes then you should have the obligation to make crystal clear the situations where the nuclear option would be considered.
For any programmer out there could you imagine writing a functional spec using such loose and ambigious language?
9/11 was an event as profound as Pearl Harbour. It is inevitable that mention must be made of this event.
Agreed. There was some pertinent information in the article but it was so wrapped up in the writers ego trip that it was hard to locate it.
The point is that if Raskin considers himself so much better at GUI design than the rest of us plebs then he should design a GUI and post some screenshots on the web so we can all bask in the reflected glory of his ego, sorry, design.
I agree with the theme of the comments from MS that HTTP is been used in ways not planned for. However, whilst I am concerned about this the thought of MS providing us with a replacement is really terrifying.
Much of this is vintage FUD that our friends at MS are masters of. Hopefully, the few remaining competitors to MS will ensure that alternatives to the valid points are raised.
AS
The tracking of speed breakers in the UK is already in place, On certain motorways (freeways) your vehicle and more specifically the vehicle registration number is recorded by CCTV. When you leave the motorway your vehicle is again photographed and the central database scans for your registration number. The computer can then do a simple calculation on how long it took you to travel from point A to point B. If this calculation equates to a speed > 70 MPH you'll get a court summons in the post. As you wont gave a leg to stand on defence wise you can at least plead guilty by post. Hurrah for technology.
Reading this atricle brought back memories of running NT on some Alpha servers. The Alpha was awesome hardware and its very sad that it fell victim to the Wintel meatgrinder. The technology was superior to the Intel chips, sadly DEC could never match the marketing muscle of Intel. Did Intel lean on Microsoft to drop the NT version for the Alpha?
Still for those who have access to an Alpha you have my best wishes. Its great kit.
What worries me most is that this is a form of technology test before rolling out a version to the US or other western countries. ,the prols, against the bad guys.
Maybe I'm getting a little paranoid but consider this scenario: a western government deceides that in the war against terrorism greater control and analysis over internet traffic is required so as to 'protect' us
Our patriotic duty would be to support such actions as our contribution to the war.
AS
Why should the user of lasers be against the law ? You can use a flame thrower on the bad guys and then bayonet the survivors but not zap them with a high intesity beam. Bush appears quite easy about ignoring laws he does not like and in this case I'd have no problem with either altering international law to reflect new technology or simply deploying the weapons.
This sums up my thoughts. In principle OS X for Intel is a great idea. In reality it could well be a nightmare for Apple to support and in the end devaluing the Apple brand that the company has fourght so hard to preserve.